During Monday night’s game against the Redskins, Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel gave his opponents a one-finger salute, a middle finger if you will. Then everybody “flipped out.” Fans on Twitter, mainstream media, even some in the blogosphere acted like Johnny ruined the NFL’s good name. Disgraced the league with his classlessness.

In the grand scheme of what goes in the NFL—Ray Rice beating a woman, Aaron Hernandez shooting guys, Josh Gordon’s inability to sober drive—and we’re concerned about a middle finger lowering the class of the NFL?

Swearing, smack talk, a little pushing and shoving after the whistle? That’s part of the game. Johnny gets it. So do most of us who watch hundreds of football games a year. But some of you? Some of you need to calm the f*ck down. Or maybe, I don’t know, stop watching football if a middle finger offends you that much. Because trust me, there’s a lot worse going on. Both on and off the field.

I think part of the problem is that it was done on the field. If Ray Rice was beating his wife on the field, or Rongrastname raping girls on the field or Ray Lewis shooting people on the field, that would be comparable. I don’t want to say it’s their private lives, but really it’s their private lives. Doing it in front of thousands, wait this is preseason, hundreds of people and live TV is the problem.

Diehard Redskins fan and I didn’t blink at this. Not a big deal. Some sheep are overreacting because ESPN is blowing it up and running polls on their website, but I really think most people don’t give a shit.